The Collation
Research and Exploration at the Folger
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Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 3: What We’re Reading and Why
The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic
Folger Faves: January 2026
Senior Photography Associate William Davis shares his five favorite collection items in our new series: Folger Faves.
Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 2: What We’re Reading and Why
The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies: Legacies, Cultures, and Social Justice
Top five Collation blog posts of 2025
Take a look at our top five Collation posts from 2025. Thanks for a great year!
“Greetings from Jamaica”
Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.
How to be a true widow in early modern England
“Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th-century manuscript.
Third Time’s a Charm: W. Blount Reads Sidney’s Arcadia
An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
Working Through the Tangle: Language, Archives, and Practice
What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?
Miscellaneous Race
Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany
Race B4 Race 2025, Seminar 1: What We’re Reading and Why
Keep up with what the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network is reading this year!
A Closer Look at Paste Papers with Folger Conservators
Have you ever noticed a decorated paper on a volume in our collection and wondered how it was made?
Anthony Burgess and Shakespeare
You probably know Anthony Burgess as the author of A Clockwork Orange, but did you know he was also a prominent commentator on Shakespeare’s life?